Glenton
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised at Ottawa Central Experimental Farm, Ontario, Canada. It was named in 1911 and introduced in 1946. Fruits have softish flesh with a subacid flavour.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Glenton Canada, by 1911
- Seed parent Northern Spy United States, about 1800
Sources
- Glenton (accession 1967 - 070), National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, Kent (Defra). Supports: the description quoted; the parentage; the use; the fruit's size, shape and colours and the flesh, from the collection's characterisation; the picking time at Brogdale (mid september).
